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Tonight begins the
three days of preparation for Cababala
Satra.
Writes amazingly that we know our
calendar is a living calendar which
means that whatever transpired back in
the day is re stirred is reenacted. what
the calls
are with an al if the light shines again
at this time of the year. So the says if
3,300 years ago cl Israel
they came together in unity
they came together with humility with
anova and they came to be able to
understand the Torah says quoting the
there's no question that in these three
days
taught
secrets of the Torah in preparation for
there is no question then says if indeed
These days we gather together with aus
with humility trying to understand the
will be upon us great secrets of Tyra.
I want to begin this evening with a
that is not
specifically no to the of Shivus but
you'll see how it will apply to Shivus
the is about P
the comes from a safer not such a
well-known safer the name of the safer
is Masy
it's a commentary on the Rambam safer
mitzvah
The Minas was written by the Abbezan of
Dla, the grandfather of Rapinhas
Hersbrung. Pinhas Hersbrung was a tal of
Lublin. He was one of the great bikim.
He would humorously say Rapinhas
Hersburg would say, you know, the Gumar
discusses who's better, the Senai or the
Haram. The Senai is someone with wide
ranging bikus. The haram is someone with
probing analysis. The Gumar discusses
whose learning prowess is greater. Sai
or Haramon and the Gmorra concludes.
It's better to be the baki than to be
the silk hers would humorously ask why
in the world is a Senai greater than an
oharim. You know sai is a mountain. You
know about that saii is a mountain. So
let the oer harim come and be oi. He
should be able to come and uproot si. So
hers would say
hers would say of course Haram could be
the thing is he doesn't have the bik to
know where he is. He can't find him. You
know he's he's still looking for him. He
doesn't know what page he's on. So
anyway Hershbrung's grandfather wrote a
commentary on the mitzvah
the mitzvah of
he says the following. He says if you
have a bar mitzvah bakr who becomes a
bar mitzvah
in middle of or in middle of the year
and for
he was a he was not in
says
if he was putter that year
he is putter the entire year for
for the whole year he doesn't have to
say the third par
Why? He says because the mitzvah is
the night of the sedar
is to the mitzvah. So if you're not in
the you'll be in the tel. This is the
by the way. Let's explain that. Why
should you be putter in the nightly
mitzvah of
if you weren't mitzvah the night of the
and you were exempt from
what it seems that the holds is that
what are we doing every night we're
saying
what are we doing are we actually
remembering the events are we going
through all the details are we really
recollecting from beginning to end
we're only giving it a few moment
moments. How could we be mim any mitzvah
by just saying that? So says the
you see as long as one night a year we
dedicate ourselves to remember all the
details from beginning to end from the
gus to the from the gory details until
the great salvation. If one night a year
we stay up late and from beginning to
end from until Israel we relay the
entire story then every other night of
the year we could just check back and
say oh yeah that that le
check check.
In other words once one night a year is
sufficient to recollect the whole story
so that every other night we could just
mentally make a note. Okay. Yeah, I know
that. That one that that that that.
By the way, it comes out that the minus
is answering the famous kasha of one of
the most famous questions on PESA.
What? What's special about the mitzvah,
the night of the sedar? What's special
about
there's a mitzvah every single night of
the year?
Famously gives three answers. says no
is all the details or it has to be
question and answer or you have to be
but according to the there's a very
clear answer to
the answer is the mitzvah is to remember
all the details and that has to be done
at least one night a year and once
you've done that every other night you
could just make a mental check and say
okay right the 15th of Nissan the 15th
of Nissan, the 15th of Nissan.
I want to give you another example of
this. This I I never said before in this
context.
There's a famous
maybe not so famous. It's not really
spoken about enough. Everybody when they
learn, they speak about
but
poses a fundamental philosophical
question. We know command of itman of
whatever the decides whatever he's
whatever he decrees is for the best. So
let's say you have a guy
he's ding to reunish
I'm only making $100,000 a year. I need
to make $200,000 a year. Please reuna
question. Why didn't the rebum give it
to him? Because the feels that for his
benefit he's better off having less
command
the made a decision that for the
greatest is this person should have
less. So could somebody please explain
what's the guy doing going to in the
morning and saying
I need more cash. what he's arguing with
Hashem. He's saying,
"I know you feel I should only make
$100,000, but I respectfully disagree
with your your decision. I feel I should
make more money." What exactly is the
process of
so I know everybody has answers in their
head, but for some reason the answer of
the nephim is forgotten. The nepheim
says something astounding. The nepheim
says the truth is you can't really daven
in the typical way. You can't say to
give me more livelihood. Theam knows
that for your benefit it's better that
you have less livelihood.
But you have to so to speak pull the
following trick. You sayam
I know for my benefit I'm better off
with le less livelihood. I know that
what's good for me is not to have so
much money. But you see that I'm bitsar.
You see I'm in pain. You see I'm
stressed about it. You see how much
anxiety I have. You see what it does to
my wife. So it might be good for us not
to have the money. But when we're
stressed reunish and we're in pain, it
hurts you. So it's not good for you reun
have the money. So I'm not asking for
myself. I'm asking for you. I know for
me I'm better off not having the money.
not having the rafu, not having the
whatever the decides that our situation
should be is what's good for us. But
that doesn't mean it's good for the so
we say to listen,
thank you very much for doing what's
good for me. I don't want what's good
for me. I want what's good for you. Can
I please have the money because you
would want me to have the money. Can I
have the sh because you want me to have
the I know it's not good for me but it's
good for you. That's howil works.
So you say that's the biggest scam in
the world. What do you mean that's how
works? But we don't say that. We say
please give us the money, give us the
rafu, give us what we need. How could
you say that's how works? Remember what
the nephim says says in that's why we
have on rash
and on rash we establish
the motivation of we establish the
mechanism of the mechanism is
the mechanism is
in other words says on we establish that
everything we pray for, everything we d
for is for the Islam's sake. And then
the rest of the year we say
seem
remember rashana.
Why do I bring these two examples? We're
trying to demonstrate the following
idea. You could have one day a year and
that one day a year could establish that
what we do the rest of the year is
predicated and based on what we've
established on that day. All the whole
year stand on the
all of remembering
every night of the year stands on.
Now let's come to Talma
in by the CM hash in tav shindon alf
revel spoke at the cam hashas and he
said over the following vtora from
raaran cutler it's since it's published
in the mishnasarin I think alf page lama
the ravarin asked the following amazing
question
there's so Many things in Judaism that
we commemorate. We commemorate an we
have a yumptiff of sukis to commemorate
the ananana. The clouds of glory were
were uh epic miracles in the history of
the Jewish people. We commemorate it by
having a yamf. We commemorate the man
every shabas.
They're miracles that we commemorate. We
commemorate Briam
on Shabas
and yet there doesn't seem to be any
mitzvah in the Tory specifically that
was given as a commemoration
of Cababala Satra. Even the Yumptiff of
technically has nothing to do with
Cababala Satra. It's not even the date
that the Torah was given necessarily.
We're commemorating sh on.
The tyra wasn't given on. It was gi
We're commemorating on the 50th day of
the It was given on the 51st day of the
you go to Isra
the entire year that even happens to
fall out on the day the Torah was given.
At least we you know we get the tail end
we were lucky we get the second day is
the day the but technically speaking
is an agricultural y in the kish itself
it says absolutely nothing about shuis
being a commemoration of kabal asks
rabar why is there no mitzvah to
commemorate kabala shatra
and rabaran says something astounding
rabaran says you know we do not need to
commemorate ate this year, right? This
year that you're at right now in what is
it called? Our I know it's called
shiners, but it's called
>> we don't need to commemorate the shar in
you know why cuz it's happening. You
don't have to commemorate it. Even
though you know there there's some
people that no matter what is happening,
they're videoing it and taking pictures
of it, right? no matter what the whole
year they're just videoing ta why
because they're never actually living
through anything they don't actually
experience things they're commemorating
things even as they're happening right
now they're commemorating it but they're
not actually taking it in themselves one
day they'll look at the pictures or
they'll look at the videos
but that's ridiculous
says you don't commemorate something
that's happening in real time you
commemorate something that happened in
the past
happened thousands of years ago We
remember them. The creation of the world
happened thousands of years ago. We
remember it. But there's one thing that
we don't need to commemorate. There's
one thing we don't need to remember. You
don't need to remember something that's
happening in real time.
What's actually happening in real time
is happening in real time. When the
rebuil gave the Torah 3,300 years ago,
that wasn't an isolated event. That
wasn't a one-time event. That event
happens continuously. Every time you
open up a Mishna, you open up a garra,
you say a kish, the event, the moment,
the great happening of Kabosra is
reoccurring in real time where the hatra
is coming to you personally and teaching
you the Tyra.
Rarin quotes the Pakas
the great resounding reverberating voice
of Hashem
Yasum says
Pak it never ceased it never interrupted
it never stopped in other words if you
were to go home tonight and open up a
garra and say Omar Abay Omar Raa you're
not remembering what Abay and Raa said
2,000 years ago
You have now positioned yourself as a
mabel hatra from the reblam at the
present moment. Cesar the ky the braim
the awe inspiring experience didn't
happen then and now we're remembering it
now. It's happening now in real time.
You don't need to remember something if
it's occurring right now.
writes in the what does it mean
to
me?
By the way, it's interesting. You know
the Maril
the Maril writes about Rabam. I always
like to say if you ask most people who
is the greatest of all the rishim
for some reason even people
instinctively say the greatest of all
the rishim was the raam
it's it's not true it's not true the
rush writes inv the yammo writes that
for Ashkanazm for Ashkanaz the greatest
of all the rishim
by far he says
wasam.
The rush says the says
he was greatest in wisdom and greatest
inim and after him he ranks them after
him the rehaz the the the nephew of
Rabenam
by the way the Rabotam was very wealthy
raotam had at least 80 servants the say
and before he would give his shear he
would want to put himself in a good move
so he would go to his vault he would
take out his money. He would count his
money and then he would say
the
says that's would be
up but says there's another meaning the
other meaning of
is as you're saying a garra
as you're saying a Mishna As you're
saying ash, as you're saying any of the
at that moment, the is reciting those
very words together with you. He is
giving your soul that Torah emanating
from that's why throughout you have the
expression.
There's an amazing line in the nephe and
think about the ramifications of this
line. The garan says on
that there's a suggest
a certain incident happened. A woman was
violated
and there was a civil war and there was
a discussion how did the whole thing
start? What precipitated it? So Gomorra
brings them
and Raban one says matzah. One says the
husband found a fly in his drink.
Another mandar says matzah the husband
found something unhygienic.
And the garra says that one of the asked
in the shayim at the time that the
discussion of was taking place
what was doing
says the garra the was saying
that the was saying over the respective
opinions of these
says
from here we See, listen to this. From
here, we see that at the moment that a
yid learns Torah, theam is reciting
those very words together with you.
So you could ask what kind of proof is
that? Theam is saying the words together
with us. How do we see that from the
fact that the was saying the opinion of
and the opinion of their
which the garra says
which means that each of their opinions
had a reality of Tyra maybe that
dimension of the says along with great
people but me and you in 2026
when I open up a safer theam is saying
the words with me. How could you prove
that from the fact that says it along
with
that's a proof? That's an extension.
But obviously, you see, there's no
difference. We're not any less worthy.
Our stature is not any less in the eyes
of Hashem. Our Tory is not any less
important. What we have to say is not
any less valuable in the eyes of Hashem
than the Tory of Amit in the Gomorrah.
So friends, imagine if
before you opened up your garra at the
start of a seda, a daily sedar, imagine
if you had the following thought. I am
now about to reenact my hari.
me sitting here it's like I'm standing
at the mountain and the ribon from the
top of the mountain from the shamayim is
going to be delivering the toyas hashem
to me to my mouth and I'm going to be
saying it along with imagine how that
would radically alter our learning
imagine how that would catapult our
learning to the highest level
so you say that's that's not so easy to
do to always have that thought but
imagine if You had the routine before
you began to learn.
You meditated for a moment. You thought
for a moment. You had that that moment
of reflection that what I'm about to
experience is nothing short of mai
that would be a tremendous aliyah to our
learning. So how is it possible to do
something like that?
So perhaps the same way we said that if
you're the mitzvah of
the night of the you could then mentally
make a check every night of the year
every night as long as you have that one
special night of le you could refer to
it every night of the year as long as
you have that rash and that to establish
that your
then every you say the whole year is
just a checkback back to that.
Then imagine if the night of sh you
revved yourself up. You said, "Tonight
I'm going to learn much later than I
usually learn. I'm going to I'm going to
push myself tonight to learn much more
than I ordinarily would have. I'm going
to prepare myself to hear
in the morning, to hear in the morning,
to relive the experience, to imagine as
if
to imagine as if I'm seeing the words of
if on
we prepare ourselves to have a as if we
stood on hari then every day of the year
you could refer back to your shuis and
you could say today's learning tonight's
learning this morning's learning the
next day's learning it's a it's
referring back to the great day
All of my limato throughout the year is
just a check back to the great yam of
>> how we doing.
>> We're good.
>> I want to share something with you.
Hopefully, we'll remain friends after
this. A very simple idea that I think
could also
infuse
not just our learning but all of our
mitzvah with tremendous uh elevation
with one simple thought.
What would the be what would the be if a
guy took off a day came to sh on Sunday
and spent three hours learning and he
was learning
He was learning Gomorrah Rashi to Mara
Rabikarim
the and he was not mat even for a
moment. However, he forgot to do one
simple thing. He forgot to think
that he wants to be Mim the mitzvah
to be Mim the mitzvah of Talmra.
He didn't have kavana to mim the
mitzvah.
Does he get for the mitzvah of
or does he not get for the mitzvah of
what's the
so there's a
says
meaning the pask you know the was an
orthodox rabbi he paskins
is which means you could learn
and if you don't have the simple formal
thought before you begin to I have to
of don't tell me you say the don't have
for
without that simple thought you don't
get credit for so he said no the what
about the isn't there a that says that
since why else Would I be sitting in my
chair learning the gar if not for the
fact that I want to be in the mitzvah of
Hashem? So it's
a that's right. So the mish says you're
still the mitzvah. So just I want to ask
a simple question. When was the last
time you went to the store or you went
to the dalinuk and you said you know um
could you give me a an srog that I'm y
with? You ever try to buy an es that you
only owe to? When was the last time you
wanted to be mitzvah expressly?
Nobody wants to do that. Nobody tries to
do that. We like to do things.
And yet when it comes to the most
important mitzvah in the Tyra,
I hope I'm wrong. I think it's very
commonly overlooked to make sure that
before you start learning in the
morning, I know you say
We all say people may even say before
people may even say but what about the
simple
I would like
the mitzvah of tamatra these are two
things that could really catapult our
learning to a different level ensuring
that before we're ma in the mitzvah of
tamatra we have that simple kavana and
having the thought that this experience
of tamaturra we would like it to be a
reenact enactment of Minai
and we remember all the hisus that we
had on the of Shabbas.
Very interesting. The Torah was given in
the year 2448,
3,300 years ago. So the says that the
way to remember the year the Torah was
given it's gamach
the love of toess that was given in that
year
the B is 2000 how the B is 2000 that is
beyond the scope of tonight's share
there's an element of tamatra
that could greatly ist
our focus and our our mindset that we
were trying to reenact
probably the most well-known question
regarding kabala and the of is the kasha
ofus and shabas
to famously asks it's the kasha the
dasim in paras the tan and paras
the question is very simple
How was the Tory given? What was our
reaction? What was our response? How did
the give it to us? On the one hand,
everybody knows the parishim
gives us thera and we respond.
And yet the shab says
that coerced us to the so to speak
shoved it down our throat. He forced us
to
said here he's holding the mountain over
our head. You want it? You want it? You
know, we're looking up and we say,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, we
really want it."
So the question is why have to force us?
We were happily willing to accept the
Tyra. We saidish. It was such a moment
of elevation that gave every Jew two
crowns. So why have to force us to be
mabra?
There are many answers to this question.
The moral in our kadesh in far is
in Gorar in Israel. The moral gives the
following explanation says the maral
there is no question the did not have to
force us to
we accepted it willingly. We were
we said you don't even have to tell us
what it says. Whatever you're going to
tell us, we accept.
But says,
could you imagine if a doctor comes to a
patient and he says, you know, you're
not breathing so well here. Would you
like oxygen? Please let me know if you
would like oxygen. You know, the guy's
sitting there. He's esphixxiating on the
bed. He can't. He's going to pass out.
If he doesn't have the oxygen, he's
going to die. Is a doctor going to ask,
"Would you like oxygen?" What do you
mean would you like? It's not up to the
patient. It's not up to his discretion.
Something so vital, something so
critical, something so crucial. You
can't say, "Would you like it?" It can't
be discretionary. It it has to be
because without it, existence wouldn't
be possible. Says the moral, "There's no
question that Clrol was willing to be
Mabel. the
but what would it have looked like if
would have said
you want the Tory you want it would you
like this you want what I have to offer
and we would say yeah yeah we would like
it wouldn't that imply that the only
reason we have the Tyra is because we
happen to want the Tyra and yeah and
let's say we didn't want the Tyra then
we wouldn't need it then it wouldn't be
necessary
So the maral says in order to telecast,
in order to broadcast, in order to send
the message that Torah is so vital, so
important. It's the very purpose of
existence. It's it's what makes creation
possible. Theam said, "I'm glad you want
it. I'm glad you like it. I'm glad you
love it, but I don't really care that
you like it and you love it because the
Tory is so much more important than
something that I could just leave up to
your discretion. Therefore, I need to
force you so that you recognize and the
world recognizes this is the very
tabria.
So, did we want it or were we forced?
We wanted it. But the Torah is so
important it demands that we be forced.
How could it be left up to our
discretion? That's the famous answer of
the moral. Maral says based on this that
actually it occurs to our benefit that
the force us. The maral says that
philosophically
that when something's up left up to your
discretion, its sustainability, its
viability is very tenuous. Will it last?
Will it not last? Will it be sustained?
Will not be sustained. Something that
has to be something that's reality
will always be. The mar says forced us
to be the it's an amazing analogy
analogous to a man who is a woman that
the is
the man can never send her away because
when something is forced there's a
degree of permanence that cannot be
broken the forced us to be the and now
he's stuck with us now the is stuck with
he can never send us
So if you think about how the Torah was
given, the Torah was given
in two vantage points. There are two
perspectives we have on the way the
Torah was given. On the one hand, from
the point of view of the recipient of
the Tyra, we accepted it willingly. We
happily accepted the Tyra. From the
vantage point of the giver, from the he
coerced us coerced us.
says Mosha Shapiro.
Interestingly, there are two dimensions
to how we learn Tory.
What are the two dimensions? There's a
mitzvah.
You're supposed to learn day and night.
What does that mean? Whenever you have
the opportunity, be at day, be at night,
whenever you have a free moment,
whenever you have free time, we're
supposed to as best as we can engage in
tamatay. That's the mitzvah of learning
when you can, when you're able to, when
it's available.
But there's another completely different
dimension of Tyra. The says we have to
beim.
We know one of the six big questions
we'll be askedim
question. What do you mean?
I'm already learning whenever I could
learn. If there's a mitzvah of
If there's a mitzvah to learn whenever
you're able to learn, of what purpose is
it to have a mitzvah to set specific
times to I'm learning whenever I can
anyway? What is the mitzvah of
adding
says Mosha Shapiro? There are two
dimensions to Kabatra.
There's a dimension of nasishma. There's
a dimension from the vantage point of
the recipient where the recipient that's
us. We always need to commemorate that
our relationship with Tyra is that we
embrace it lovingly with all of our
heart and therefore we try to learn
whenever we are able to reasonably.
But if all we would do would be to learn
when we're able to learn,
that would be a dram drastically
fundamentally insufficient commemoration
of the way the Tory was given because
didn't the rebel coers us to be mabra?
Didn't send us a message that this is
not something that's up to our
discretion that we do it only because we
love to and we do and we do it only
because we want to and we do want to.
Besam felt that it was necessary to
ingrain within the consciousness of the
Jewish people that the Torah is the very
life force of creation and therefore
it's not enough that you want to do it.
says, "I have to force you to do it
because even all your love and all your
rats and that's not enough."
So, how in the world are you going to
commemorate that the Tory was given?
How do you commemorate that? How do you
remember? How do you reenact the element
of Satar? See, what we're getting at is
that learning is not just you sit down
in front of a garra and you take in
information. There's an entire event.
There's an epic event that needs to be
commemorated and relived and
experienced. And that is the event of
the giving of the Tyra that should be
experienced whenever you learn Tyra. So
how are you going to relive and
experience the element of kafa
says Shapiro that is commemorated
in the element of tamatra called kavioim
lara
right now this morning I'm dead tired
I could barely keep my eyes open yes I
love to learn yes I want to learn but
right now I can't okay Perfect. Perfect.
You can't. You're not able to.
This is your chance. You have a set time
to learn. You give it your best shot.
Say, "But but I I learn because I love
it." And you know, I'm I'm not feeling
the love. You don't always have to feel
the love. It's there. You'll have You'll
have other times to feel the love. Now
you're feeling Now you're commemorating.
There's a certain element of Toro that's
a reality of creation. You're tired at
night. You're famished. You want to call
it a day, give it a moment or two.
There's an element of talra which is a
reenactment and an experience of the way
the Torah was given. And by being
la, you're reenacting the element of
hari of kafaligas.
Here's
a positive spin on the Indian of Matra.
By the way, the peloyates brings this
down and amazingly and a rare instance
where the quotes the pelleo
you remember in the gumis
what's a
uh nine kosher stores and one trave
store and you find a piece of meat. So
what do you do? Say co dep
nine kosher stores one trave store. You
could assume it came from the kasher
store. But if you find the piece of meat
in the area of the stores and one of the
stores is tra. So this is a new
principle. Now you can't say that the
item just came about from the ro. It's
in the place where it originated from.
What do you call that? It it follows a
completely different set of laws. What
is it called?
When something is found in its place of
origin, then you don't say it's 90% 10%.
It's called 5050.
Anything that's set, anything that's
established is
says the pelleo. You know what the
concept of being
is? You see if you set time
in the morning
and you set time in the evening your
So now your is
it's oh it's so even though you're only
learning 10 minutes in the morning and
10 minutes in the evening but it's set
it's no matter what you make sure to do
that allotted amount of time. So now we
don't consider it that you worked 95% of
the time and you learned 5% of the time.
Now we could view it you learned 50% of
the day.
The pelleoid says he says it in two of
his okay but he's not finished. He says
we know that is mate
which means that regarding certain areas
of if something is exactly 50/50 theam
you know he throws you a bone he tilts
the scales. So once you're and it
becomes 50/50 then the sham tilts the
scales. So it's considered as if as long
as you have the
and
it's
a ploy the
so you see there are many dimensions
over here. First of all it's a little
bit you know it's a little bit of a hack
of how to to be considered as if you're
learning in all your time. If you have
set times, it's kava. It's also a way of
commemorating the element of kabal
of kafaligas.
Let me conclude with one more idea.
In the end of the Treyasar in the Niag
is talking to the Kahanim and Levim who
return in the times of the second Bam
mikdash to rebuild the second Bam
mikdash and the Kahian and Levim who
returned in the times of the second Ba
Mikdash. They're a little they're a
little disappointed. They're a little
despondent. They're looking at the
second temple, looking at the second
basikdash and they they feel it's just
it's just a semblance of the first ba
mikdash. In fact, theim say that when
the levim saw the second ba mikdash,
they cried. They remembered the glory of
the first bamedash. They remembered the
hashim. They remember the tumim. They
remember the
and the novi tries to explain what's
going on to these kahan
and the novi poses a question to the
kahan
and this is the way
the malamag
throughout explain this conversation the
kag comes to the kahan and he asks a
very simple
What's the ha if you have baser kudim
that comes into contact with the cloak
with the shirt with the jacket of the
now the kudim it's it's it's actual kim
if somebody were to use it there would
be moyes what would the be if one ken
came and he took and he took the steak
from the kim and he r he smeared it all
over the guy's jacket does that make his
jacket kim him? No. Does that make his
jacket holy? No. What if somebody comes
and takes Kachim and puts it on someone
else's hand? Isn't Madesh the other guy?
Not at all. You don't become holy from
coming into contact with Kachim.
Then the novi asked the kahan, "And what
would be if you took a tame
and you put it on a guy's shirt or you
put on a guy's hand? Would something
happen to them?
they become tame. So the novik says to
could you wrap your minds around why is
it that when kudish touches someone
nothing happens to them but when touches
someone it changes their status what is
more powerful than kachum don't we say
and then the kag says
that's you the answer to this question
is you
what exactly is the back and forth
says the malbum the noagai was
explaining a fundamental
lesson in avoidas hashem and it's a
question that perhaps plagues us or at
least should plague us and it's
something that we really ought to think
about and the question is you know
sometimes
you'll go you don't have to go there you
shouldn't go you'll go to the city and
you're there for for five minutes and
you're surrounded by
the spiritual impurity and you feel
downgraded. You feel that it's lowering
you and you're just there a few and
you're not even you're trying to avoid
it. You're not even looking and you're
just being there. It lowers you and
somebody could come to a schul and he
could davin for 45 minutes or somebody
could learn for an hour and he walks out
and says what what what did that do to
me? Am I any different?
as why don't we feel a commensurate
aliyah when we're involved in learning
to and
commensurate to sometimes a urida that
will feel even inadvertently in a
momentary lapse why isn't it
commensurate
says another in the times of the second
bdash here in lies the secret to when
avoid hashem has a on you and when it
doesn't have a rom on you.
You see, our bodies are physical beings.
We're flesh and blood.
So therefore, our superficial systems
have a commonality with tumah. We're
physical corpial beings. So you know
what's going to happen when we touch?
It's going to downgrade us. It's going
to lower us. It's going to affect us
because our superficial
exteriors have a commonality with tumah.
However, you're going to sit down in
front of a garra, you're going to sit
down to davin. If all you're going to do
is basically, you know, hum through the
words, say the words, your mind
wandering, and it's not an immersive
experience,
then it will not affect you because your
superficial systems have nothing in
common with what you're what you're
involved in. Your body has nothing in
common with the Tory and the you're
doing. You need somehow to get that
Torah and inside you into your soul
because it's your nishama that could
that could connect and then the tora and
the could resonate with the nama but
it's not going to resonate with your gof
but the problem is if the act of a
hashem is outwardly it's superficial
it's distracted it's
it's only
that will not really have an impact on
you. So if you go to schul and you
wonder hey why didn't that learning or
impact me because it's not going to
it has to be done in the right way. You
have to somehow get that buzzar kudim
not to touch your body. You have to get
the and the tyra not to touch your lips
not to touch the outer extremities of
your mind. It has to be
the Tory that we learn has the capacity
to catapult us to the greatest heist and
to transform us. But it can't be on our
hands and it can't be on our lips. It
has to be immersive.
If I could share with you one very
simple hanhaga, hopefully we'll still be
friends.
That means the Tory that we learn and
the we involve in must be immersive. It
has to be something we stick oursel
into. We immerse oursel into. It's
and I think my humble opinion one of the
biggest challenges that to that today is
that very often we're tethered to
something in our pockets on our waist
that every 30 seconds or every minute
and a half it's buzzing, it's dinging,
it's distracting, it's pulling away our
mind. So that every avoid we do never is
an immersive experience.
The best thing you could do, the best
way you could have a cababala is to say
whatever amount of time that I am able
to dedicate to my day, whatever my
schedule allows,
that's going to be that's going to be
it's going to be a without anything
pulling my mind and my heart away from
what I'm involved with. Whether that
means I leave it in the car, I leave it
outside. Believe me, nobody's calling
you to that you won the lottery. Okay?
If you won the lottery, they'll get a
hold of you. You'll you'll I'm sure
you'll find out about it. That is a way
to ensure that the Torah you're learning
is not merely like busarim that touches
the extremities of the hands
but it's something that comes
and when the Tory comes
you could be sure that if has the
capacity to change your status then tora
that comes ala
could catapult you and make you a
completely different person. We should
be
to have a that elevates us that infuses
all of our learning with a with the
experience of that infuses all of our
learning with all of the ali and all the
and all the
Thank you very much.